netdev - [PATCH] ip maddr show” on an infiniband address causes a stack corruption

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:36:22 +0000
From:	Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ip maddr show” on an infiniband address causes a stack corruption

Hi,

“ip maddr show” on an infiniband address causes a stack corruption 
because the length of the address for Infiniband (20 bytes, as 
described in kernel doc Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt) does not 
fit on the 16 bytes of the field in which it gets stored.

The proposed patch increases the size of the hardware address from 4 
__u32 to 8 and also adds a check to avoid overriding the available 
size while parsing the hardware address.

This bug affects current upstream code AFAICT.

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Olivier.

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